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The Beauty in the Black Veil

This sublime fragment of a longer qasidah (ode) about a saint who falls madly in love with a beautiful maiden in a black veil (recalling the story of Shaykh San’an ) is sublimely performed in Mauritanian style by Dimi Mint Abba:

I don’t know what are the photos about it’s Arabic poetry and Persian paintings
Anyway there is a funny story behind it
The poet have a friend who sell veils and he sold all the colorful veils and he was strangling to sell the black ones
So his friend the poet and man of god makes this poem as a marketing tool that really worked and every girl in the city buy a black veil